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The French historian and sociologist Alain Touraine is the author of fundamental works on post-industrial society that have enabled us to understand and interpret the profound sense of the great transformations of our times, offering at the same time a continuous and enriching reflection on the problems derived from the need to coexist over and above human differences.

In turn, the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, born in Poland but nationalised British, who has lectured at universities in diverse countries, has comprehensively studied in depth the social condition of post-modern man in an unstable world of transitory values. In his decisive analysis of this reality, Bauman has coined the term “liquid modernity”, incisively developed in the work of the same name.

These two representatives of the most brilliant intellectual tradition of European thought have created, independently from one another, singularly valuable conceptual instruments for understanding the changing, speeded-up world in which we live.